....Waiting

It was the night before my first tutoring session. All I had in mind was what and how I wanted to present myself to my first writer. I wanted to look presentable. I wanted to look awake and show that I was there for my writer. The day had arrived and all I kept thinking was what I was going to say. Fortunately, my writer greeted me with a smile, and I felt at ease for the first couple of minutes. She told me about her paper and said she had a problem with run-on sentences. As we read her paper, she giggled, and I asked her what was so funny. She told me that as I was reading out loud her paper, she noticed how long her sentences were. As we worked through her paper, we both offered suggestions on how we could combine sentences or omit. I was very jubilant to hear that I did help her and that she felt more confident about her paper. My goal of this first tutoring session was to establish not only confidence in my writer, but as well as in me. I wanted to feel secure and confident that I was capable of helping others in their college writing.